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Athena’s New Waste Water Treatment Plant Cancels the Anthropic Impact of the Chemical Nickel Plating of Engine Cylinders Monica Fumagalli ipcm
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Galvanic processes are very delicate treatments in terms of both operation and possible environmental impact. Athena, a well-established company specialising in engine components, has developed a unique nickel plating treatment without losing sight of the importance of limiting the anthropogenic impact normally entailed by this kind of operations. This is why it turned to Water Energy, an industrial water treatment specialist, to find the most sustainable and innovative solution for the purification of its nickel plating process’ liquids.
A
s is well known, the bodies responsible for the formulation
was born at the beginning of the nineteenth century, but it has
of environmental regulations pay much attention to the
been constantly upgraded up to being used on various substrates
management of galvanic treatments. Considered one of the
to give them particular surface characteristics. Many experts have
processes with the greatest environmental impact, this technology
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emphasised the benefits that the use of this particular treatment can